The best jazz CDs of 2021? Vinyl is the most popular and desirable listening format. Do you agree? When it comes to jazz, that means reissued vinyl of largely dead jazz artists, since the majority […]
Should I dive back into headphones for 2022? I’m thinking about it. Most of my headphone listening these days is confined to my laptop, an AudioQuest Cobalt, a couple of relatively modest headphones and a […]
In 1965, John Coltrane was on a global tour to promote his then new recording, A Love Supreme. This tour would yield other Impulse! releases including Om, Selflessness, and a bootleg, Live in Antibes. Near […]
Capitalizing on producer/director Peter Jackson’s upcoming six-hour extravaganza, The Beatles: Get Back, Apple Records issues yet another grand Beatles’ vinyl project, based on the Fab Four’s penultimate recording as a band. Following the release of […]
As a youth in the early 1970s I was entranced by George Harrison’s third solo LP, All Things Must Pass. John Lennon’s then new Plastic Ono Band was equally high on my list, even if […]
To paraphrase one of his album titles, why does everybody dig Bill Evans? Something special happened every time Bill Evans played the piano. Time stood still or seemed to suspend and disappear. When he flew […]
Every generation of music lovers should listen beyond the popular music of the day. If you don’t do the enjoyable, deep listening required to appreciate classical, blues, Brazilian, as well as other, more esoteric styles […]
If you’re an analog, aka vinyl lover, I’ll cut to the big magilla: John Lennon’s remastered solo debut LP, Plastic Ono Band, humiliates the original 1970 US pressing. The new pressing, which I assume was […]
By Ken Micallef An infrequent communiqué on the best and worst in new and reissued vinyl titles from around the globe… Lord Classic Lord Classic represent a long lost notion: a New York City band […]
By Ken Micallef Though their music is largely forgotten and unknown to anyone under 30, Simon & Garfunkel created some of the greatest pop music of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their classic albums […]
By Ken Micallef Larry Young In Paris: The ORTF Recordings Perhaps the paramount track on Larry Young In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (available here) is a 13-minutes-plus version of Wayne Shorter’s “Black Nile.” As […]
By Ken Micallef Manufactured in Germany at PALLAS and branded with a “180g Audiophile High Quality Pressing” sticker on every jacket, ECM’s current vinyl releases align with label boss/producer Manfred Eicher’s long-standing commitment to expressive, […]
Covering all things vinyl, whether from digital or analog sources, with good music the only common denominator. By Ken Micallef More than any other Beatle after the band’s 1969 breakup, more than Paul McCartney, George […]
Indonesian jazz, depth charge dance and Record Store Day 2015’s stacks o wax Journeys through vinyl, but it from analog or digital sources, with good music the only common currency by Ken Micallef Jazz guitarists, […]
Adventures in vinyl, be it from analog or digital sources, with good music the only common currency. By Ken Micallef In the opening scene of the 2014 Ginger Baker biopic, Beware of Mr. Baker, […]
By Ken Micallef Journeys through vinyl old and new, whether mastered from analog or digital sources, with great music the only common currency Listening to pianist Bill Evans’ recently released box set, The Complete Village […]
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